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What concept? It hasn't progressed past a barely-working beta for months.

I'm also curious. What about it is embarrassing?

not the OP, but I wonder if it's embarrassing as hell BECAUSE it went from one of the most hyped things on the internet for months into near obscurity, with zero updates on when it's going to be operational, seemingly no life at all from the developers of it (seriously, anyone alive over there?), and more problems popping up on the tiny part that is posted up. Sad stuff.

Ridiculously hyped up. I remember being SUPER excited, making accounts for any of my friends who couldn't stay up, discussing what house we'd get, etc. And then... nothing. I feel so bad for it, since I don't know anyone who still frequents it.

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otakugal15.livejournal.com - 2012-01-25 03:23 (UTC) - Expand

noskidaddle.livejournal.com - 2012-01-25 19:11 (UTC) - Expand

otakugal15.livejournal.com - 2012-01-25 22:36 (UTC) - Expand

kikkyo.livejournal.com - 2012-01-25 22:20 (UTC) - Expand

(not in the HP fandom) I was just wondering about Pottermore the other day; at one point EVERYONE on my flist was so excited about it and then...not a peep. I couldn't help but wonder what had happened to make everybody go from 100 to 0 in such a short amount of time. That's so weird that they don't update it tho, especially since it was hyped all over the place.

the hype was crazy; my sister and I stayed up late to sign up for the beta, we were so excited... and then yeah, no.

I'm guessing the self-insert concept? Personally I don't see it as something to get bent out of shape over, but that's all I can gather other than what other people have said (except that's all about execution rather than concept).

Preaching to the choir, sister.

Tbh I wish she'd published an HP encyclopedia, but it can't be that bad.

Why? Because you see it as milking the HP cow for all it's worth?

...It's free, though? So that hardly seems to be milking it. Milking it would be to ask people to pay for access, or publishing an encyclopedia at some extortionate price and telling people it was only the first in a series.

The concept? Why? It's kinda fun, or might be when they sort it all out. (Heh! Sort!)

I still haven't gotten my invitation.

I never expected it to be anything other than a virtual encyclopedia about stuff that hadn't been discussed in the books, so all the whining doesn't impress me. At least you got to experience it, I never got in. Oh yeah, and I can't even use Potter-wiki, because hello Pottermore spoilers!

On the other hand, I really don't like how they're handling things atm. "People don't like Pottermore? Shut the site down so we can start from scratch!"

Well tbh there really, really isn't that much new info on Pottermore.

You're my new favorite, anon. A+

aww, thanks

The concept is just a glorified, overhyped, official fan-site, right? I have no actual clue about the site, I didn't get into the Beta and as far as I can tell the site hasn't updated all that much. Still, there's been interactive fan sites and encyclopedias before, there'll be more in the future. So what's there to be embarrassed about? Honestly curious.

I wonder if it's embarrassment about it being just your basic interactive fan site, especially since the early hype about it was kind of promoting it as nothing we'd seen before...

Why?

LOL POTTERMORE

(okay for all I love to mock it and the beta that Will Never End, I do kinda wish it would someday open up to the public because I want to have a wand arbitrarily assigned to me!)

It's not actually all that arbitrary... I did it twice (eh, sue me) and I answered the same way for all the questions just to see, and I got the exact same wand, down to length and swishiness. The description fits me pretty well and I can see how I got that wand based on my answers.

murderershair.livejournal.com - 2012-01-25 22:32 (UTC) - Expand

Yeah, speaking of Pottermore... I'm a casual HP fan and I wanted to get an account there only to see what house I would get sorted into. After it didn't become open to everyone in the promised month I kept checking back every now and again and the front page hasn't changed a bit.

To someone like me whose not 'in the know' with the fandom it seems like it's been completely abandoned. It would be nice to know what's going on, because I'd still try it out if it ever opened up... but it doesn't seem any progress has been made.

Probably OT, but I really dislike using the word 'concept'. And probably it was used wrong in this case.

For what it's worth, it totally sucks. Cute idea, nice pictures, but the programming is buggy, and there's not much to do. You can be finished with the whole (potential) site in a week.